Happiness Is A Warm Gun

I hope you'll check out a post of a few days ago here...
http://blog.nj.com/njv_publicblog/2009/02/everything_you_heard_about_gun.html
Yeppir, another frightened, small-minded, paranoid attack by one of the little men, so terrified that the black helicopters of his fevered imagination (which, apparently, Gov Corzine, Assemblymen Reed Gusciora and Ruben Ramos and I will pilot) will land on his lawn tonight to take his precious guns, that he resorts to name calling and accusations of lying and poses not a single supportable fact or citation.
What? You didn't know? The Governor, Assemblymen and I are liars...just because James Locust says so. Uh huh. And, absolutely "everything you've heard about guns is a lie." Oh yeah. And, NJ's Attorney General is withholding information that contradicts published federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) data showing that more than a quarter of guns recovered from crime in NJ were originally sold by in-state gun dealers, apparently because the AG is part of the same evil cabal as the Governor, Assemblymen and me (and probably has her own black helicopter to boot). Most definitely.
Puhleeze! Would these little men grow up?!?
To tell the truth, though, I love it when such virulently pro-gun types get so overheated with fear and anger that they lose control and put down their unalloyed feelings. It enables normal folks to see that what drives these guys is far from any semblance of rationality, but, instead, a "happiness is a warm gun" emotional need for a bizarre sense of security that guns somehow give them. Pathetic, indeed.
So, what frightens these little men so much? Believe it or not, it's legislation pending in the NJ Senate to limit individuals to the purchase of no more than a single handgun in any 30-day period (colloquially known as One Handgun A Month), intended to make it less likely that gun traffickers will be able to acquire handguns in bulk to sell on the street to thugs. That's up to 13 handguns per year in a 365 day year. Yet, Locust and his frightened ilk scream bloody murder. Rational? You be the judge.
And, the little men are not above doing exactly what they so facilely accuse those of us working to improve the public safety. In his sweaty piece Locust claims that: "The last time a fifty caliber rifle was used in a violent manner was probably in the early 1800's." Oh? Texan Jill Moss might disagree - and she has the horrific wounds to prove it (http://www.50caldanger.org/). So, who is lying?
These little men actually believe that those more concerned about the common good (public safety) than some fictional 'right' to acquire any gun, in any quantity, at any time, are driven by some strange desire to punish law-abiding gun owners. Fact is, we don't care about guns in the hands of the law-abiding, it's the thugs and violent youth and domestic terrorists that worry us, and we believe there are ways to lessen the danger to all with some moderate steps, such as limiting individuals to the purchase of 13 handguns per year or banning civilian purchase of massively destructive military weapons. Is that really so frightening?
You be the judge. Who is lying? And, who is rational?